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This area lists information on books,
movies and television shows which contain references to Munchausen's
Syndrome by Proxy. Generally these items are not appropriate for
research, but do offer a glimpse of MSP in the real world.
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Doctor Describes Munchausen Syndrome
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A Boy's Life
A
BOY'S LIFE paints a dramatic portrait of the troubling forces
that have shaped Robert as he grows up in an impoverished region
of Mississippi.
Directed by Rory Kennedy (HBO's "American
Hollow" and "Pandemic: Facing AIDS", the America Undercover
special was a 2003 Tribeca Film Festival selection and received
the Best Documentary prize at the Woodstock Film Festival.
Read the complete synopsis here
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HBO Documentaries
March 28, 2004
1:00PM
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The X-Files
Mulder and Scully seek
the truth about a boy deemed evil by his grandmother. Scully
suspects Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy.
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"The Calusari"
1995
David Duchovny
Gillian Anderson
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A
Child's Cry for Help
A physician suspects
that her young patient's mother may actually be the cause of his
mysterious illness.
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Director:
Sandor
Stern
Cast: Pam
Dawber, Veronica Hamel, Lisa Jakub, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Cynthia
Martells, Daniel Benzali
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Luka treats a small boy
who has had continual internal organ difficulties and whose
mother seems extremely well-informed and well-versed in the
medical lingo. He doesn’t suspect anything out of the ordinary
although the boy has had dozens of procedures in his young life,
and Luka is almost ready to arrange another one for him, when
Carol alerts him that it appears that the mother may be making
her son sick on purpose. Although Luka is skeptical, the pair
gets Abby to leave a bottle of drugs, which she leads the mother
to believe is peroxide, near the boys bed to test if the mother
will try to use it on her son. Indeed she does, but it turns out
that it is actually a substance which changes color in gastric
juices, and when Luka comes to find out what has happened to the
son, he removes some of the colored fluid from the boy’s
stomach.
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"Abby Road"
Season 6
Episode 12
Original Air Date: 2/3/2000
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The
Sixth Sense (1999)  
Bruce Willis plays a
child psychologist helping a 9-year old boy who is troubled by
visions of spirits. The film contains some very good references
to Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
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